Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heaven 14 September 2018 – Before The Win Runs Out

1.I worship You, Father, because You are the God who uses the foolish and weak things of this world to confound the wise.

2.Thank You, Father, for sending Your son, Jesus to show us, true, pure and correct wisdom.

3.Father, in anyway I have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus’ name.

4.Father, please, take me away, by Your grace, from every road that seemeth right to me, but it’s end is destruction, in Jesus’ name.

5.Father, please, open the eyes of the spiritually blind and the ears of the spiritually deaf, to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, in Jesus’ name.

6.Father, I invite You anew unto my life. I repent of whatever I am currently doing without involving you. Please take over my life’s ambition and control it in Jesus’ Name

7.Father, frustrate the tokens of liars in my life, and turn diviners, against my peace and destiny, mad, in Jesus’ name.

8.Father, sanctify me through the blood of Jesus, and purge me of limited, worldly, diabolical and satanic wisdom, in Jesus’ name.

9.Father, fill me with Your fear, and and endow me with divine and profitable wisdom from above, in Jesus’ name.

10.Father, please, let the character of Your wisdom begin to manifest in my life, in Jesus’ name.

11.Father, preserve Your son, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, without blemish or wrinkle, till the coming of Christ, in Jesus’ name.

12.Your Personal petitions.
( Philippians 4:6)
13.In Jesus’ name I pray.
(John 14:13-14; 15:16)
14.Thank you Father for answered prayers.
(1 Thessalonians 5:18).

Open Heaven 15 September 2018 Memorise:
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Open Heaven 15 September 2018 Bible Reading – Hebrews 11: 17-19

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

As a mathematician, when I first gave my life to Christ, the paying of tithe to God was ridiculous to me, and I saw it as a subtle way through which the pastors wanted to swindle me of my hard-earned money. Prior to this time, my 100 percent was not enough; by the middle of any month, I had to borrow money from my driver to buy fuel.

I then wondered within myself that if 100 percent was not enough, how then could 90 percent be? Thanks be to God that the Holy Spirit won this argument, and today, I am a living testimony of the faithfulness of God to every person who pays tithe.

Hebrews 11:6 reveals that without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith in God enables a person to do the ridiculous. God asked Gideon to go to the battlefield with a “ridiculous” number of soldiers (three hundred) against the thousands of Midianite soldiers opposing them.

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As ug that was not enough, even the three hundred soldiers were not to carry any weapon of war, but rather an earthen vessel each (Judges 7:7-25)! Gideon complied with these instructions in faith and he got a miraculous victory.

Moreover, concerning the salvation of out souls, it takes believing the “ridiculous” before the miraculous can be experienced. The Bible in John 3:16 says

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, bit have everlasting life.”

The Bible further states that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin (1John 1:7). That the scripture says “all sin” and not just few sins! This truth is what the unbelieving people of this world cannot understand. In fact, nobody can explain it. It belongs to the realm of faith. In addition, many of those who have ever experienced the miracle of healing have a testimony of doing the ridiculous before they got the miraculous. Click To Read – Open Heaven 17 September 2018

An example of this is the story of the ten lepers (Luke 17:12-19). In spite of the fact that leprosy was still visible on their skin, Jesus told them to go and present themselves to the high priest to show that they were healed of their leprosy, because they needed to be certified as being free of leprosy before they could reintegrate into their communities. They proceeded to show themselves to the high priest. Click To Read – Open Heaven 14 September 2018

In order to get the miracle of healing, they confronted the risk of being stoned to death for coming out of isolation as lepers. However, they got healed on their way: their “ridiculous” faith earned them miraculous healing!

My experience in my Christian walk and particularly as a minister of the gospel have taught me that unless you agree to do whatever God asks you to do, however ridiculous it may sound, you cannot experience the miraculous. Beloved as you exercise faith in Jehovah-Rapha today, your healing shall be made manifest in Jesus’ Name. Click To Read – Open Heaven 16 September 2018

Open Heaven 15 September 2018 Prayer point:
Father, increase my faith to the level of bring able to do the ridiculous in order for my miracle to manifest

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Open Heaven 15 September 2018 Hymn 4

TRUST AND OBEY

1. When we walk with the Lord
In the light of His word
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey

Chorus:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

2. Not a shadow can rise,
Not a cloud in the skies,
But His smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt nor a fear
Not a sigh nor a tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey.

3. Not a burden we bear,
Not a sorrow we share
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief nor a loss,
Not a frown nor a cross,
But is blest if we trust and obey.

4. But we never can prove
The delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favour He shows,
And the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.

5. Then in fellowship sweet
We will sit at His feet,
Or we’ll walk by His side in the way;
What He says we will do
Where He sends we will go
Never fear, only trust and obey.

Open Heaven 16 September 2018 Memorise:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1:5

Open Heaven 16 September 2018 Bible Reading – Genesis 3:1-5

3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Open Heaven 16 September 2018 Bible in one year – Proverbs 23-25, Mark 8:31-9:13

Many people don’t know that it is dangerous, if not a curse, to posses the knowledge of evil. To have the knowledge of evil is to know how to do evil. In Genesis 3:5, when the devil told our first parents that their eyes would be open and they would be like God, knowing good and evil, he was literally saying “you will know how to do evil”, even though he did not tell them he was teaching them how to do evil.

This is why it is wise for every child of God to understand the source and the nature of any knowledge they acquiring. In James 3:17, the Holy Spirit recommends the type of applied knowledge we should seek after, saying:

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be in treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

Do you know that some people acquire knowledge that destroys their entire life? When a young boy learns how to smoke marijuana or other narcotic substances, he becomes emboldened and begins to feel he has “become a man”. What folly this is! When a young girl is introduced to premarital sex, she may be deceived that such carnal knowledge will make her “a real woman”. Click To Read – Open Heaven 17 September 2018

Although she may be excited about it, the truth is she only learned how to do evil, and it will I’m turn destroy her destiny. This is why parents must endeavor to dull their children with godly knowledge before it is too late. God’s wisdom in Proverbs 22:6 says:

” Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Open Heaven 16 September 2018

There are ways the devil introduce his “curriculum” on the knowledge of evil to mankind. In today’s Bible reading, he used the deductive method to achieve his goal. He asked: “Did God say that you should not eat of the every tree of the garden?” He was pretending not to know which of the fruits I’m the garden was forbidden. Click To Read – Open Heaven 15 September 2018

Would God have arranged for his children to starve by commanding them not to rest of every tree of the garden? Even today, the devil still uses this style. For example, he may come to you saying “Did God say you should not drink any wine?” The answer is definitely “No, what God said is that I should not drink alcoholic wine.”

He may also say to you, “Yes, I know God would not want you to have sex because it is bad!” The answer is “No, what God said is that I can only have sex with my spouse.” The devil is a liar, please don’t believe his lies.

Open Heaven 16 September 2018 Action point:
Watch the king of knowledge you acquire over the internet, and review the kind of blogs you view.

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Open Heaven 16 September 2018 Hymn 7

O Jesus, I have promised

1. O Jesus, I have promised,
To serve Thee to the end;
Be Thou forever near me,
My Master and my Friend;
I shall not fear the battle
If Thou art by my side,
Nor wander from the pathway
If Thou wilt be my Guide.

2. Oh, let me hear Thee speaking,
In accents clear and still,
I dare not trust my judgment:
Thy way shall be my will;
Oh, speak to reassure me,
To hasten or control;
Oh, speak, and make me listen,
Thou Guardian of my soul.

3. O Jesus, Thou hast promised
To all who follow Thee
That where Thou art in glory
There shall Thy servant be;
And Jesus, I have promised
To serve Thee to the end;
Oh, give me grace to follow,
My Master and my Friend.

4. Oh, let me see Thy footmarks,
And in them plant mine own;
My hope to follow duly
Is in Thy strength alone.
Oh, guide me, call me, draw me,
Uphold me to the end;
And then in Heav’n receive me,
My Savior and my Friend

Open Heaven 17 September 2018 – God’s Love

Open Heaven 17 September 2018 Memorise:
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 1 John 3:1

Open Heaven 17 September 2018 Bible Reading – Isaiah 49:14-18

14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

Open Heaven 17 September 2018 Bible in one year – Proverbs 26-28, Mark 9:14-37

The Bible declares that our God is love (1 John 4:8). He is love because no one else can love like Him. What greater love can a man have for his friends that. To lay down his life for them? Our God’s love us incomparable with any other. People May claim to love, but you will find out that when their love is tested, it fails woefully.

In contrast to this, God’s love never fails! He loves us so much that He has our names inscribed on his palm (Isaiah 49:16). Irrespective of the number of children He has all over the world. He knows every single one of us by name (Isaiah 43:1).

Even every strand of out hair is important to Him, so much so that He numbered each one and not a single strand can fall without Him noticing (Luke 12:7). His love is unconditional, because while we were still living in sin, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

Believe it of not a breastfeeding mother can forget her child, but our God can never forget us. He loves us even more than our earthly parents do, and nothing can separate us from His love. He will never withhold anything good from us; all we have to do is ask Him.

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With man, love comes with conditions. Some people only love people of the same or higher class, and they treat every other person with contempt. As wealthy and highly placed as our God is, he does not behave this way. He came down from His kingdom if many mansions and golden streets to be born on a manger amongst animals, just so that he could associate with us and help us out of condemnation.

He does not see you as a liability; rather he sees you as a friend to be treasured. Believe Mr honestly, God has His eyes in you all the time. He loves you so much that He doesn’t want you to get hurt. You may ask “Why then am I going to through all these troubles?” Our God did not promise that the road would be smooth all through life, but He promised that He would be with us all the time ( Isaiah 43:2).

His presence with you is an assurance that no trouble can consume you, and that you will rejoice at the end. However, have you given your life to Christ? He wants to take away your heavy burden , but He can’t do this if you are not ready to accept His yoke of Lordship in Matthew 11:28-30 ,He says

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Accepts God’s offer of love today. Surrender your life to Him and begin to live a new life of great possibilities

Open Heaven 17 September 2018 Key point:
The devil may seem like the man with the goodies but don’t be decieved, his mission is to steal, kill and destroy.

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Open Heaven 17 September 2018 Hymn 8

Great is thy Faithfulness

Verse 1
“Great is Thy faithfulness,”
O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not,
Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be.

Chorus:
“Great is Thy faithfulness!”
“Great is Thy faithfulness!”
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided,
“Great is Thy faithfulness,”
Lord, unto me!

Verse 2
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Verse 3
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!